* 2001 – Olivia Barclay, British astrologer ( b. 1919 )

Since 2001, financial services in the British Virgin Islands have been regulated by the independent Financial Services Commission.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

* British Security Policy in Ireland, 1920-1921 Ainsworth, John S. ( 2001 ) Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 1. pp. 176 – 190

Labour MP Tony Benn introduced a Commonwealth of Britain Bill several times between 1991 and 2001, intended to abolish the monarchy and establish a British republic.

The episode attracted an audience of 16. 8 million and in the 2001 British Soap Awards won Best Storyline.

In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and in 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and honored with the Norbert Wiener Award, which is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Eric Cheney ( 5 January 1924 – 30 December 2001 ) was an independent British motorcycle designer and constructor.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

2001. British Stars and Stardom.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

Category: British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan ( 2001 – present )

In 2001, the Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society ( BPS ) commissioned a working party of expert psychologists to publish a report entitled The Nature of Hypnosis.

Jersey pounds per US dollar-0. 55 ( 2005 ), 0. 6981 ( January 2002 ), 0. 6944 ( 2001 ), 0. 6596 ( 2000 ), 0. 6180 ( 1999 ), 0. 6037 ( 1998 ), 0. 6106 ( 1997 ); the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound.

* 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist ( b. 1939 )

In 2001, Spacey co-hosted, with Judi Dench, the Unite for the Future Gala, a UK fundraiser for the British Victims of 9 / 11 and Médecins Sans Frontières at London's Old Vic Theatre, produced by Harvey Goldsmith and Dominic Madden.

In October 2001, the United States armed forces and British Armed Forces provided massive air support to United Front ( Northern Alliance ) ground forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Alt-rock band The Cooper Temple Clause formed a kabbadi team in 2001 and were, at one stage, ranked seventh in the British domestic standings.

In 2001, Marl put together another compilation of original productions with guest rappers for the British BBE label, titled Re-Entry.

* 1931 – David Peakall, British scientist ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Martin Wright, British bioengineer ( b. 1912 )

* 2001 – Barry Horne, British animal activist ( b. 1952 )

After the fall of the Conservative government to Labour in 1997, she served as Shadow Health Secretary between 1998 and 1999 and later as Shadow Home Secretary between 1999 and 2001 under William Hague.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

This year marks the first post-communist government that not collapsed and served its 4-year term until 2001, thus stabilizing the political system in Bulgaria.

The government elected in 2001 pledged to maintain the fundamental economic policy objectives adopted by its predecessor in 1997, specifically: retaining the Currency Board, implementing sound financial policies, accelerating privatisation, and pursuing structural reforms.

It has been suggested by United States government officials that " box-cutter knives " were used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, though the exact design of the knives actually used is unclear.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts ; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO ( August 2001 ).

The government was overthrown in a coup by army and navy officers on August 9, 2001.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

On 12 May 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD.

The war lasted from 1991 to 2001, although most of the hostilities ended when the moderate factions of FRUD signed a peace treaty with the government after suffering an extensive military setback when the government forces captured most of the rebel-held territory.

A radical group continued to fight the government, but signed its own peace treaty in 2001.

In 2001, he ceded his absolute power over the government to an elected parliament of selected Tibetan exiles.

* 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

The Noboa government confirmed its commitment to convert to the dollar as the centerpiece of its economic recovery strategy, successfully completing the transition from sucres to dollars in 2001.

Three new private satellite-based TV stations were launched in November 2001, marking a great change in Egyptian government policy.

The government spent 6. 5 % of its annual budget on defense in 2000 and 4. 5 % of its budget on defense in 2001.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Since the collapse of the Taliban government in 2001, new trade relations are emerging with the United States, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, the EU, Japan, Uzbekistan, India and other countries.

Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.

As a result, public support for the government sank to nearly record lows by early 2001.

Faced with a high crime rate, a public corruption problem, often violent harassment and intimidation by unknown assailants of human rights activists, judicial workers, journalists, and witnesses in human rights trials, the government began serious attempts in 2001 to open a national dialogue to discuss the considerable challenges facing the country.